Dr Theodoor (Theo) van den Handel is Right to Care’s Provincial Programme Manager for the Western Cape.
Theo joined Right to Care as a part-time consultant at the Themba Lethu Clinic (Helen Joseph Hospital) in January 2009. In September 2009, he joined Right to Care on a full time basis at the head office, becoming the Provincial Programme Manager in the Western Cape in November 2009.
Theo qualified at Wits University in 1988. His internship was spent at the Johannesburg General Hospital, after which he did his military service. Theo worked at Medical Training Command in Pretoria and was involved in the training of the OPS Medics.
In 1992, he joined a general medical practice in Sandton where he worked for 18 years. From 1992 to 2001, with his partners in the general practice, Theo was involved in the consulting and running of the Sandton and Morningside Medi-Clinic Casualty departments and as such practiced emergency medicine for nine years.
After the senior partner retirement from the practice in 1998, he took over the management and running of the practice.
Recently, Theo has worked in the Themba Lethu Clinic and Rahema Moosa Hospital, seeing and treating HIV infected and exposed patients. He has completed the Adult HIV management Coarse for Clinicians as well as the Paediatric HIV Management Coarse for Clinicians. He is currently in the process of doing the Diploma in HIV Management with the College of Medicine.